layman

About 1.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.
2. noun Someone who is not a professional in a given field.

   Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman.

3. noun A common person.
4. noun A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject.
5. noun Lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order.

Similar words

layperson secular outsider simple other lay nonspecialist nonexpert amateur nonprofessional

Often followed by

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Word family

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